Drought in our garden

Drought in our garden

That's just our garden, unfortunately all of Koh Samui is suffering. The wells are running dry around the island and the Government water supply has dried up a while ago already.

This years rainy season didn't materialize and although it made for good turnover in the tourist industry during unusual months, now the invoice is being presented.

This papaya tree has dried up, due to the lack of sufficient water, the leaves are just hanging about and the fruits have shrunk in size or are non existant.

This papaya tree has been helped out of it's misery and it just tumbled over, not being able to carry it's own weight anymore, let alone any fruits. Just about three months ago, our garden was in full blossom, including these papaya trees.

The banana trees are also having a hard time and they can't carry the weight of a cluster of bananas and tumble over. Really a sad sight.

Here's another banana tree that toppled over, I'm not sure if the banana's will actually keep growing. So far they're still green and haven't been rotting, although the trees toppled over a good two to three weeks ago.

Besides this some trees are losing all their leaves and things in general just turn brown all over our garden. There are some plants that still blossom so there's still some colour around.

I can only hope we get some continual rain soon, just an hour or two per day for a couple of days in a row. That would be nice.

Besides the drought we are experiencing also very high temperatures which causes a coral bleaching problem in the local waters around Samui and Koh Tao. The local water temperatures are an average of 2 to 3 degrees higher than usual.

Camille